โก What's pragmatism?In a recent pitch call someone asked me what pragmatism exactly means and my answer wasn't exactly salesy.Let's see if those people become clients ๐My answer was: when I was a child, everybody always said I was lazy. And yes, I didn't do those things I didn't like to do. But:being lazy also forced me to find shortcuts to the finish line.And that is a wonderful skill to have as a Co-Preneur.#innovation #futurepositive #creativity #mindset
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โก My favorite is number 10, Quentin Tarantino ๐ And yours?--Intrapreneur? Apply for DOJO ๐ฅhttps://lnkd.in/egQVusmH#innovation #futurepositive #creativity #culture #mindset #entrepreneurship #future #management #strategy #startups #technology
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โก The one book that every corporate entrepreneur needs to know by heart: ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ ๐ผ๐บ ๐ง๐ฒ๐๐.This book kickstarted my own corporate innovation career and ultimately fueled the founding of Reruption together with Christian.๐ช๐ต๐? ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐๐๐น๐ ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฎ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ฝ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ.When I pitched at STIHL to take over an innovation project as the external venture lead, my frien
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โกย I just had a call on innovation with someone from BOSCH, and then with someone who brings innovation to the German Bundestag. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด, ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ผ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ.Obvious parallels:- both work for huge organisations- both organisations have a hard time doing step change innovation at once and rather focus on incremental innovation to be safe- both organisations are slowed down by middle managers who care mor
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โก The easiest, most rewarding and enjoyable repeat sales is with happy customers.The product strategy learning here is simple: just build a fantastic product or service ๐ How? Well, that's the difficult part.#innovation #futurepositive #creativity #strategy #entrepreneurship #startups
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โก I analysed notes from 50 research calls using chatGPT and NotionAI. This is what I learned about AI-supported research.Since spring 2022 we at Reruption have been doing calls with experts from within corporate innovation functions. The goal was to create a whitepaper on the topic of โChallenges in Corporate Innovation in 2023โ.Meanwhile we launched the results as a โdynamic whitepaperโ on our website (https://lnkd.in/e6mNxHaK ).To create quantitative results from the qualitative input that our
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โก Imagine a Spotify where you type your desired tunes and it generates the music for you! ๐ตArtists can agree to let their voices be used. In turn, they'll receive royalties from the system. ๐คGrimes, a Canadian artist, introduced this idea. ๐Would you use it? ๐ค#innovation #futurepositive #creativity #culture #mindset #entrepreneurship #future #management #strategy #startups #technology
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โก Imagine a future where energy costs nearly nothing!๐กWhy? The sun, our massive fusion reactor, provides us with abundant energy. We just need to harness and store it to stop relying on fossil fuels. ๐What would you do if energy costs were no longer a limitation? ๐#innovation #futurepositive #creativity #culture #mindset #entrepreneurship #future #management #strategy #startups #technology
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โก What do these 3 look like?Certainly not like their rocket just EXPLODED.But that's exactly what happened. 3 minutes after launch the biggest man made rocket by SpaceX experienced a "rapid unplaned disintegration".The take-away? I love that American spirit. Always focussed on the future. On what went well. On what goes and works and not what doesn't.#innovation #futurepositive #creativity #culture #mindset #entrepreneurship #future #management #strategy #startups #technology
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Your worst enemy as an innovation lab? Too much budgetInnovation labs create new future business opportunities. Those opportunities are found when thinking outside the box, being creative with little resources and having a sense of urgency.In my experience having too much budget tends to slow this process down and make the results worse:teams get complacent, lack a sense of urgency and do wasteful capital allocation to projects and resources that are not feasible or don't actually create value.L
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โก Is this the real world, or just a fantasy?--Intrapreneur? Apply for DOJO ๐ฅhttps://lnkd.in/egQVusmH#innovation #futurepositive #creativity #culture #mindset #entrepreneurship #future #management #strategy #startups #technology
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โก "Google & Microsoft have had huge teams working on AI for a decade or more with essentially unlimited resources.Yet they have deliveredโฆ no major breakthroughs.Meanwhile, two startupsโOpenAI & Midjourneyโcreated products so mind-bending that it feels like the beginning of a new era.Itโs proof that innovation doesnโt correlate with resources. If anything, itโs an inverse relationship." (- https://lnkd.in/exXQCHzp)That's why we're trying to operate as resource-constricted as possible when doing
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โก Microsoft has released Co-Pilot for Excel. Now they have officially caught up with Google in the AI race.--Intrapreneur? Apply for DOJO ๐ฅhttps://www.reruption.com/#innovation #futurepositive #creativity #culture #mindset #entrepreneurship #future #management #strategy #startups #technology
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โก The last 3 years I built two corporate startups in parallel. Both were killed. The surprising learning?Short excursion: all innovators across all levels in corporates I talk to mention as the main challenge in innovation: culture.Changing the culture of a huge company is not easy, sometimes maybe even impossible. And: if change occurs, it happens so slowly that it's barely noticeable when you're in thick of it.It takes years and years: time many companies simply don't have. Sometimes the marke
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โก Millenials now have to save up 250M โฌ for retirement just to afford Doordash twice a week ๐--Intrapreneur? Apply for DOJO ๐ฅhttps://www.reruption.com/#innovation #futurepositive #creativity #culture #mindset #entrepreneurship #future #management #strategy #startups #technology
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โก This image was just sold for 1.5 million euros. But there's a twist.It's an NFT and the sale was completed in Ethereum. The buyer bought the image of a key for 1.000 Ethereum.The twist? Nobody even knows yet what the key is for.Crypto is ridiculous sometimes. Would you agree?--Intrapreneur? Apply for DOJO ๐ฅhttps://www.reruption.com/#innovation #futurepositive #creativity #entrepreneurship #future #management #strategy #startups #technology
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โก Nokia has rebranded for the first time in 60 years.Any thoughts? Third mid life crisis or something big coming up under that new brand?--Intrapreneur? Apply for DOJO ๐ฅhttps://www.reruption.com/#innovation #futurepositive #creativity #entrepreneurship #future #management #strategy #startups #technology
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โก The dark side of innovation: how progress is hurting our mental health.This trend looks pretty sad: mental health among young people, especially girls, tends to get way worse in the last years.Below article discusses a possible link between smartphone usage and this trend.All innovation has side effects. These are never immediately clear when putting innovation into the world.The "German" way to react to incalculable future risk of innovation is to research, weigh pro's and con's and approach
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Capitalism creates wealth.In our rather left-leaning society thatโs not the hippest thing to say, but Iโll say it: Iโm a capitalist;but: there need to be rules to protect the less fortunate and most vulnerable.Letโs create a fantastic future together.Source: https://lnkd.in/enq4edcy--Intrapreneur? Apply for DOJO ๐ฅhttps://www.reruption.com/#innovation #futurepositivity #creativity #entrepreneurship #future #management #strategy #startups #technology
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The first step in innovation is: PAIN.You have to recognize and solve the pain of your customers. Only when doing this it can lead to the best product in the market.Which pain are you working to solve?--Intrapreneur? Apply for DOJO ๐ฅhttps://www.reruption.com/#innovation #futurepositive #creativity #entrepreneurship #future #management #strategy #startups #technology
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